Oldtime Leaders Back at HeLa I Demo Convention
Washington report from May 24 outlines a Democratic convention four weeks away with 1098 delegates, mostly not bound by direct primaries. Bosses hold sway. delegates may switch ballots as party leaders and managers maneuver toward or away from McAdoo, with many aiming to preserve strength for a later candidate if McAdoo falters.
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Mark Sullavan
Washington
D. C
Phe
New York
McAdoo
McAdoos
MccAdoo
Seome
Arc.Adas
Paper delivery details and contact hours clarified
Notices specify home delivery by 5 20 each day and request phoning if late due to cartier or other delays. Calls should reach the office before 6 20 p m to arrange a stop and convey paper later.
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Cartier Hoy
Waterloo Hospital Fund Boosts Beds and Reach
The new Allen hospital plant will add 86 beds serving Waterloo and surrounding central western towns. Citizens are urged to support the hospital fund to extend facilities, attract patients from distant towns, and leverage the influence of local churches in a patriotic effort for better care.
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Allen Hospital
Waterloo
Rochester
United States
Aelt
Enrecca
Senate Committee backs US adhesion to world court
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsed a resolution to join the permanent court of international justice. The move aligns with Senator Pepper’s proposal, marking the first formal senate look at the world court though no vote is expected this session. A rival Swanson plan was rejected 10 to 8, and Chairman Lodge’s broader court proposal was withdrawn.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
United States
Permanent Court of International Justice
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pepper
Pensylvania
Senate
Swanson
Democrat
Virginia
Congress
Harding
Coolidge
Lodge
Hanihara to Quit if President Signs Exclusion Bill
Washington May 24. Hanihara Japanese ambassador will resign if President Coolidge signs the immigration bill for Japanese exclusion. Action by the president is expected momentarily. If he resigns, both capitals would lack ambassadors amid tense times. Cyrus Woods already resigned as ambassador to Tokyo.
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Washington, D. C
Hasino Hanihara
Coolidge
Hanihara
Twoy
Cyrus Woods
Tokio
Red Court Sentences 17 to Death for Grafts
In Leningrad on May 24 the supreme court after 27 hours of deliberation condemned to death former judges court officials lawyers and persons connected with the operation of the new economic policy who were tried on charges of corruption and bribery.
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Associated Press
Leningrad
Supreme Court
Rockefeller kin stirs court row in New York
Miss Abbey Rockefeller, granddaughter of John D., faced a traffic offense case before Magistrate Norman B. Marsh after a speeding ticket on Tenth Avenue. Mayor Hylan ordered papers to his office amid protests over perceived bias in law for the rich versus the poor.
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United Press
New York
Abbey Rockefeller
John D
Httle
Hylan
Miss Rockefeller
Tenth Avenue
Norman B. Marsh
John D. Rockefeller
Court Quomilges Frank Injunction In Three Weeks
Judge H B Boies dissolves the temporary injunction blocking city officials from interfering with showing the film Three Weeks at Plaza theatre. He notes the film is moot as it has run, but the writ protects financial interests. the defendant remains subject to criminal law if the movie violates obscenity statutes.
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H. B. Boies
Alexander Frank
Plaga Theatre
City of
Waterloo
Bates
Taanafer
Plaza Theatre
Plaza the Mire
Fim
Blaintiff
Bowman Attacks Burbank Record On War Loyalty
Des Moines reports reveal wartime record of Waterloo figures in Iowa Legionnaire. State Sen Bowman accuses Treasurer Burbank of obstructing war work drives and cites hearings and papers. Bowman says he is not running and seeks to expose a “home front” enemy to soldiers.
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Des Moines
Iowa Legionatire
M. J. Bowman
Waterloo
Warman
W. J. Burbank
Bowman
Waterloo Service League
Harbank
Black Hawk County
Service League
W Faterloo
Hurbank
Burbank
United States
J. J. Dempster
Heaty
Aainself
Yester
Iowa Legionnaire
Adhe Legion
American Legion of Town
Dubuque
Passengers Liable Under Speed Laws Says Attorney General
Dia Motes May 14. An opinion of Attorney General Gibson released yesterday holds that passengers in speeding cars are equally liable under speed laws. The only exceptions are when occupants objected to the rate and were transported at violent speed against their will, or were being transported against their will.
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Alorney
Gibson Hare
George Wo Black
Lene
One Man Dead After Attack and Robbery Attempt
Jack Skelecher was killed and two unidentified occupants of a heavily curtained touring car were jailed after an armed attack linked to Ku Klux Klan figures. Police captured three men following a gun fight. a machine gun was found in the car. Glenn Young, a raider, survived a leg wound. his wife faces possible loss of sight.
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Associated Dress
Jack Skelecher
S. Glenn Young
Ku Klux Klan
Hauer Raider
Eap Tured
Mational
St. Eilaabech’s
Glenn Young
Raider
Eight Reported Dead in Missouri Storm
Poplar Bluff s Mo May 24 seven persons reported killed at Gray Rider Mo and one at Caruthersville Mo in a severe windstorm last night One block was reported destroyed at Caruthersville Storm Moving East Washington DC May 24 a storm of marked intensity centers over Lake Ontario moving eastward with warnings ordered on the Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras to Eastport Maine
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Poplar Bluffs
Gray Rider
Caruthersville
Carnthersville
Washington, D. C
Lake Ontario
Weaher Bureau
Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Eastport
Senate rushes tax bill to vote amid calls for aid
In Washington on May 24, the Senate pressed toward a vote on the conference tax bill amid treasury opposition and protests. Leaders from both parties argued the measure would not cause a deficit next year unless Congress approves several special appropriations pending.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Senate
Congress API
Varios
Weather outlook for the week in Washington BD C
The forecast covers Upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys starting Monday. Expect considerable cloudiness with occasional showers in the first half, followed by fair skies in the latter half. Temperatures will be cooler.
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Washington, BD. C
Mississippi
Lower
Missouri
Carter Accuses Government Printing Office of Bootleggers and Touts
Atlantic City May 24. George H. Carter public printer says the Government Printing Office in Washington was a den for bootleggers and touts. He testified that races results came through a telegraph link and that officials knew and participated in gambling. He described a large staff tied to liquor, gambling, and corruption, dismissing 268 employees in the sweeping expose.
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Finternational News
Atlantic City
Will Thru
Theovernment
Washington
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
George H. Carter
United States
Carter
Capitol
Presbyterian General Assembly Adopts Church Workers Pension Plan
The Presbyterian General Assembly in Grand Rapids approves a pension system for ministers missionaries and other church workers effective April 1 1926 with retirement at 65 and benefits about one half of average salary funded by a 15 million dollar revolving fund plus up to 40 million to be raised. The plan credits church salaries with 7.5 percent from the church and 2.5 percent from the minister, creating a pension fund to support widows orphans and disabled ministers with minimums and age rules. The assembly also faces internal conflict over a fundamentalist overture and a proposed eugenics sterilization measure.
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Assocites Presse
Grand Rapids
Mich
Presbyterian General Assembly Toway
Will Hays
Ure Motion
America
Ereal Insurance Commoniee
Buch & Fund
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian General Assembly
Committee On Judicial Business
Philadelphia Presbytery
Presbytery
Clarence Macartney
L Assembly
Urees
Uiinternational
Presbyterian Conference
Recordi Ag
Sailza
Judie Toyal
Graham
Georgetown
Cole
Juvenile Court
That City
Bih
New Low Price for Raw Sugar Recorded
New York May 24 a further drop of one eighth cent in raw sugar prices appeared overnight making another new low record since January 142 The sale involved 23 000 bags Porto Rican prompt shipment at 5.15 delivered.
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New York
Snow Reported in Suburbs of Chicago
Snowfall was reported in outlying sections of Chicago with temperatures dropping sharply from the previous day. The weather event affected suburbs as colder air moved in and residents prepared for further winter-like conditions.
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Chicago
Police Guard Franks Home After New Kidnap Threats
Chicago May 4 A police guard was posted at Jacob Franks home after threats of violence tied to the ransom case of his 13 year old son Robert. A telephone threat and a new letter were reported to the State's Attorney, with authorities tracing a ransom demand of 10 000. Coroner Wolff and detectives say death resulted from suffocation, while an optician linked nervous wearers to a unique pair of spectacles found near the swamp where Robert’s body was found. The case remains baffling as investigators pursue clues and the Franks family mourns.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Jacob Franks
Robert Franks
Robert J. Crane
Franks
Curllier
Pailee Morgan A. Qollins
Hughes
Oscar Wolff
Beling
Tansom
Wollt
Smart
Jay
Richard P. Williams
Mott Mitchell
Charles EB. Dease
Adam May
jNeld
Las
Samuel Ettelson
Mr. Johnson
Frank
Lia. W
Telegraph Briefs From Washington and Abroad
Telegraph briefs report Pensistent Wooldge backing permanent court of international Jaglicn and American adherence. French ministry cryptic on merit of Leut. wreck of plane near Shangri and Duca says credits insufficient. Senator Johnson proposes commonwealth of the Philippines under a new constitution. Senate advances 7500 dollar appropriation for Sendler Green as pistol violence with bootleggers noted.
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Washington, PD. C
Pensistent Wooldge Wis
Ne Yeaund
Ite
Permanent Court of International Jaglicn
Presidenc Hardene
Varig
Shangri
Hucharest
Duca
Joana
Washinton
D. C
Joh Ison
California
DUE
Commonwealth of the Philippines
Washington, D. C
Sendler Greena
Yortion
Ollberg
Royal Delegate to G O P Convention to Vote for Coolidge
San Francisco May 24 The only royal delegate to the Republican national convention Princess David Kewananakoa of Hawaii is en route to Cleveland to cast her vote for President Coolidge. She breaks precedent by voting and speaking on internal American politics. The Hawaii delegation is uninstructed but favors Coolidge.
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San Francisco
Cal
David Kewananakoa
Hawaii
Clevel
Coolidge
David
iHawaii
Student Falls From Parade Float at Lawn City
Miss Frances Seifers, a domestic science student, suffered severe bruising this morning after falling from a parade float as it entered the campus after a May day city tour. She was taken to the college hospital for treatment.
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Cedar Walls
Frances Seifers
College Hospital
Methodists Adopt Peace Resolution at General Conference
In Springfield Massachusetts on May 24 the Special committee peace resolution was unanimously adopted by the Methodist Episcopal general conference. An amendment called for that conscription of wealth and labor to be a counterpart of any future conscription of human life in war.
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Springfield
Mass
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
Dry Raider Young and Wife Safe After Shooting
International News Wire reports Ku Klux Klan adherent Glenn Young and his wife from Williamson county were hospitalized at St Elizabeth's in Belleville after a drive to St Louis when four men opened fire with shotguns and revolvers. Mrs Young was struck in the face, Glenn Young wounded in the right leg, a bone broken. He says a sedan cut in and the attackers fired as his car neared Okawsville. He had been presenting Klan talks in southern Istingis and believes he was followed from Marion.
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Bellevide
Young
Okawasville
Istingis
Marion
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